I don't understand the significance why sign-up is not provided for personal email address. I am a freelancer and I need to try this Microsoft PowerApps but I don't have work E-mail address
Now I need to purchase work email address and private hosting just for the Microsoft Powerpoint Trial. It does'nt make any sense.
Anyway I could do that ?
Here, is a video that follows all the steps to create an account using personal email https://youtu.be/U9x6qF5zydE
To use the Power Platform, you need an Azure Active Directory (AAD) account that is managed by a Microsoft 365 tenant. A personal account will not work because the Power Platform relies on AAD for authentication and authorization.
One way to get an AAD account is to create a developer tenant, which is a free Microsoft 365 subscription that you can use for development and testing purposes. A developer tenant will give you access to all the Microsoft 365 services that you can integrate with your Power Platform solutions, such as SharePoint, Outlook, Teams, and more. You will also be able to use the Power Platform admin center to configure and manage your environment.
To create a developer tenant, follow these steps:
- Go to https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/dev-program
- Sign in with your personal account
- Click on "Join Now" and fill out the form
- Verify your email address and accept the terms and conditions
- Choose a domain name for your tenant and click on "Create my account"
- Wait for your tenant to be provisioned and sign in with your new AAD account
You can now use your AAD account to access the Power Platform and start building your solutions. Happy developing!
"Community support" your support appears very torturous:) which part did you not understand 🙂 ? someone wants to learn/try/practice powerapps why should he/she use organizational account ???
Well I also would like to use the Power Platform for personal use cases. I don't want to use my community/dev. work account as I don't want to tie all the data etc. to my employer's tenant. I'm going to try Carlosr's recommendation.
But I also like to answer all the implicit questions here about "why sign-up is not provided for personal email address". The Power Platform is closely integrated to Microsoft's other enterprise cloud services. You need a MS tenant with Azure AD to store and manage user data and licenses. Security settings, policies etc. are partly managed outside of the Power Platform. Flows and apps often integrate services from Outlook/Exchange, SharePoint and other M365 products. All of this is connected to enterprise tenants with "work e-mails".
Hopefully MS will find an easy-to-use approach to offer all of this in a lightweight version for personal accounts.
If "solved" means forget about using a personal e-mail address, then I guess you can legitimately label this as solved. But in the real world, this is no solution at all.
Thanks a lot, saved me a lot of time. Was finding a solution since a week for this. Understood two things before discovering your solution, asking the right questions, helpfulness of communities like this 🙂
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